For decades companies from across the world have eyed China as a potential destination for their investments.

Originally seen as a cheap manufacturing base, China's economic miracle has forced many companies to rethink their China strategy and embrace the world's most populous country as an important market for their products.

HSBC is better placed than most to guide companies that want to invest in China as foreign-investment enterprises (FIEs), with over 148 years' history of operating in Shanghai and across China.